Language and space. / 1 Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. 30,1, Theories and methods

The dimensions of time and space fundamentally cause and shape the variability of all human language. To reduce investigation of this insight to manageable proportions, researchers have traditionally concentrated on the 'deepest' dialects. But it is increasingly apparent that, although most people still speak with a distinct regional coloring, the new mobility of speakers in recently industrialized and postindustrial societies and the efflorescence of communication technologies cannot be ignored. This has given rise to a reconsideration of the relationship between geographical place and cultural space, and the fundamental link between language and a spatially bounded territory. Language and Space: "An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation" seeks to take full account of these developments in a comprehensive, theoretically rich way. The introductory volume examines the concept of space and linguistic approaches to it, the structure and dynamics of language spaces, and relevant research methods. A second volume offers the first thorough exploration of the interplay between linguistic investigation and cartography, and subsequent volumes uniformly document the state of research into the spatial dimension of particular language groupings. Key features: comprehensive coverage of the field in terms of theory and methods the unique volume stands alone, since it neither is a handbook of dialectology or of areal linguistics, nor a handbook on language variation alone gathers together a great number of distinguished scholars and experts in the field Introduction to the language and space series Introduction to this volume I. Introduction: language and space: 1. Language and geographical space / Barbara Johnstone 2. Language and social spaces / Brit Mæhlum 3. Language and political spaces / Susan Gal 4. Language and transnational spaces / Marco Jacquemet II. Linguistic approaches to space: 5. Language and space: The neogrammarian tradition / Robert W. Murray 6. Language and space: Traditional dialect geography / Renate Schrambke 7. Language and space: The kulturmorphologische Ansatz in dialectology and the German language and space ideology, 1920-1960 / Clemens Knobloch 8. Language and space: Structuralist and generative approaches / Sjef Barbiers 9. Language and space: The variationist approach / David Britain 10. Who's there? Language and space in social anthropology and interactional sociolinguistics / Penelope Eckert 11. Language, space and the folk / Dennis R. Preston 12. Language and space: The linguistic dynamics approach / Jürgen Erich Schmidt III. Structure and dynamics of a language space: 13. Identifying dimensions of linguistic variation in a language space / Gaetano Berruto 14. Horizontal convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space / Beat Siebenhaar 15. Vertical convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space / Unn Røyneland 16. Divergence of linguistic varieties in a language space / Rüdiger Harnisch 17. Emergence of varieties through restructuring and reevaluation / Alexandra N. Lenz 18. Urban and rural language / Reinhild Vandekerckhove 19. Discontinous language spaces (Sprachinseln) / Claudia Maria Riehl 20. Linguistic stability in a language space / Johan Taeldeman 21. Old minorities within a language space / Claus D. Pusch IV. Structure and dynamics across language spaces: 22. Contact-induced grammatical change: A cautionary tale / Shana Poplack and Stephen Levey 23. Areal language typology / Walter Bisang 24. The consequences of migration and colonialism I: Pidgins and creoles / Christian Mair 25. The consequences of migration and colonialism II: Overseas varieties / Daniel Schreier 26. The consequences of migration and colonialism III: New minorities / Thomas Krefeld 27. Non-convergence despite language contact / Göz Kaufmann V. Data collection and corpus-building: 28. Investigating language in space: Methods and empirical standards / Werner König 29. Investigating language in space: Questionnaire and interview / Guido Seiler 30. Investigating language in space: Experimental techniques / Tore Kristiansen VI. Data analysis and the presentation of results: 31. Measuring dialect differences / John Nerbonne and Wilbert Heeringa 32. Linguistic atlases traditional and modern / Alfred Lameli 33. Dialect dictionaries traditional and modern / Claudine Moulin 34. Community-based investigations: From traditional dialect grammar to sociolinguistic studies / Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda VII. Exemplary studies: 35. Untying the language-body-place connection: A study on linguistic variation and social style in a Copenhagen community of practice / Pia Quist 36. A study on areal diffusion / Walter Haas 37. The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rhine (MRhSA): A study on the emergence and spread of regional dialects / Joachim Herrgen 38. Challenging the homogeneity assumption in language variation analysis: Findings from a study of multilingual urban spaces / Sally Boyd and Kari Fraurud 39. Variety complexes in contact: A study on Uruguayan and Brazilian Fronterizo / Harald Thun 40. Language as a process: A study on transnational spaces / Monica Heller 41. The study of language and space in media discourse / Jannis Androutsopoulos VIII. Structural domains: Methodological problems: 42. Areal variation in segmental phonetics and phonology / Peter Gilles and Beat Siebenhaar 43. Areal variation in prosody / Peter Gilles and Beat Siebenhaar 44. Areal variation in morphology / Stefan Rabanus 45. Lexical variation in space / Dirk Geeraerts 46. Areal variation in syntax / Bernd Kortmann 47. Areal variation and discourse / Norbert Dittmar Index.

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This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction. For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an overview and orientation. To attain these objectives, the series aims for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end strives for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology. The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The language of publication is English. The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will is imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume is a self-contained work, complete in itself. The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editors of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editors only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume. To discuss your handbook idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert. Frontmatter; Contents; I. Introduction: Language and space; II. Linguistic approaches to space; III. Structure and dynamics of a language space; IV. Structure and dynamics across language spaces; V. Data collection and corpus-building; VI. Data analysis and the presentation of results; VII. Exemplary studies; VIII. Structural domains: Methodological problems; Backmatter. V. 1. Theories And Methods / Edited By Peter Auer And Jürgen Erich Schmidt -- V. 2. Language Mapping / Edited By Alfred Lameli, Roland Kahrein, Stefan Rabanus. Pt. 1. [without Special Title]. Pt 2. Maps -- V. 3. Dutch / Edited By Frans Hinskens, Johan Taeldeman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.